03. Venues

Built in the 1930s, and extended in 1960, La Sucrière was a warehouse until the ‘90s. Its conversion into the flagship venue of the Biennale de Lyon 2003 marked an important milestone in the transformation of Port Rambaud into an area open to the public. Visitors pass through the old silos to enter the warehouse, following the route once taken by inbound sugar shipments – a great introduction to this 7,000 m² building, which eloquently evokes its past.

Designed by Renzo Piano, the Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art opened in December 1995 for the 3rd Biennale de Lyon. It offers temporary exhibition floorspace of 3,000 m² on three fully modular levels able to host every possible exhibition design.

Darren Bader is exhibiting a sculpture in Tête d’Or Park, near macLYON. And Hannah Hurtzig is projecting her Leçon de nuit on the window of the Lumière Institute’s photo gallery (3 rue de l'Arbre Sec, Lyon 1).

In 2015, as part of the Biennale de Lyon, the museum will host an artwork by Yuan Goang-Ming. The Musée des Confluences was born from the encounter between a glass crystal and a stainless steel cloud, embodying the convergence of its two rivers, the Rhône and Saône. Its architect, Wolf D. Prix, co-founder and design principal of Coop Himmelb(l)au, designed it to be a place of discovery where the knowledge and leisure spaces are attuned.